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Watchung Reservation is the largest nature reserve in Union County, New Jersey, United States. [1] The Watchung area is located on a ridge within northern-central New Jersey, as it consists mainly of the upper valley of Blue Brook, between the ridges of the First Watchung Mountain and Second Watchung Mountains.
This is a list of notable Shinto shrines in Japan. There are tens of thousands of shrines in Japan. Shrines with structures that are National Treasures of Japan are covered by the List of National Treasures of Japan (shrines). For Shinto shrines in other countries, scroll down to the See also section.
Lake Como is a borough located in the Jersey Shore region, within Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,697, [7] a decrease of 62 (−3.5%) from the 2010 census count of 1,759, [15] [16] which in turn reflected a decline of 47 (−2.6%) from the 1,806 counted in the 2000 census. [17]
Even as, just 20 feet away, the Lake Shrine museum and bookshop with artifacts from Yogananda’s life still stands. The living quarters of the 14 monks who reside on the property also took a hit.
Among the sacred groves associated with such jinjas or Shinto shrines is the 20-hectare wooded area associated with Atsuta Shrine (熱田神宮, Atsuta-jingū) at Atsuta-ku, Nagoya. The 1500-hectare forest associated with Kashima Shrine was declared a "protected area" in 1953. [38] Today it is part of the Kashima Wildlife Preservation Area. The ...
Setsumatsusha (摂末社) [15] [note 4] is a combination of two words Sessha (摂社, auxiliary shrine) and massha (末社, undershrine). [16] They are also called eda-miya (枝宮, branch shrines) [16] which contains Miya (宮) During the Japanese Middle Ages, shrines started being called with the name gongen (権現), a term of Buddhist ...
The Kingdom of Hyrule, [b] a medieval-based fantasy land, [40] [41] is the main setting of the series, which first appeared in The Legend of Zelda. Many of its areas have appeared throughout the series, such as Hyrule Castle, the Lost Woods, Kakariko Village, Death Mountain and Lake Hylia. Hyrule was formed by three goddesses: Din, [c] Farore ...
Madonna del Ghisallo is a hill in Magreglio, close to Lake Como in Italy. It is named after an alleged Marian apparition. According to the legend, the Medieval count Ghisallo was travelling by the hamlet of Magréglio when he was attacked by bandits. He saw an image of Virgin Mary at a shrine, ran to it and was saved from the robbers. The ...